Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Question: How often do NPs wash towels?

Weekly in summer, fortnightly in winter (max gap).

The reason? 2 showers a day this time of year but once a year in July/August.

PasturesNew

Sleep's always been difficult for me, a lifelong thing that I accept.

Having returned to work, the mornings have been tricky .... OK Wed/Thu, although felt dopey, but yesterday I heard the alarm then nodded off again and woke up to discover it was 18 minutes before the time I should be at work, I arrived with 2 minutes spare

Came home from work last night, watched a bit of telly, fell asleep... then got up "at just before 5am", decided I might as well stay awake so got dressed, opened the kitchen window ..... and decided to watch some telly until it got light - then realised it wasn't 5am at all, it was 10:30pm last night still! I watched telly for 3 hours and went to sleep; got up at 6am this morning this time.

PasturesNew

Towels - when they need it..... I shower and use a bath sheet, I am small so it doesn't get much use. I have a hand towel in the bathroom. I tend to wash 2-3 towels at a time, so will usually lob the bath sheet into a washing pile after 2 weeks or so.... then do a "big towels wash" once every 4-5-6 weeks or so. I might occasionally lob jeans in with towels too... it all depends what I need to make up a load.

Generally speaking, once I've caught up with washing (currently got a backlog due to not having had a machine and because I am now unpacking clothes/etc and finding some went into the vacuum bags clean but are now a bit whiffy), I'll do one load of washing/week, with an extra load every 2 weeks - once for accumulated towels then the following fortnight for accumulated bed linens. I always make sure I wash a full load, so will top up the weekly wash with items that are OK to be chucked in.... I collect whites together and do a whites wash about once every 2 months. I've not got many whites so have deliberately bought a white bath sheet and some white sheets so that I can always make up a full whites load with enough forward thinking

JonnyBravo

Generali wrote: »

2 showers a day this time of year but once a year in July/August.

Nice! Presume you supply pegs for the nose?

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

Most people seem to loose there interest in grammer and spelling- it's as if they couldn't of cared less when they wrote it.:eek:

:rotfl:
Priceless. Thanks for that zag.

On a different note, I don't do a separate towels wash. Towels get put in with other washing according to colour. I do 4 kinds of washes
1) Whites and very pale stuff that can wash at 60
2) Not quite so pale colours and pale/white stuff that needs to be at 40
3) Dark colours
4) Red, pink & purple stuff - DD and I both have quite a lot of this so it makes sense to have mid-tone pink washed with red rather than with darks or lights

I don't have a set number of days after which I wash towels. Sometimes I put a towel in the wash because I feel it's been in use for a while, but frequently it doesn't last that long because somebody either drops it on the floor or uses it to dry hands that were imperfectly clean or does something else to make it obviously need washing.

GDB2222

YoungBusinessman wrote: »

Hey happy new year all, 3 weeks now been in house, just got internet on. Have a question that will most likely get answered better on this thread than starting a new one elsewhere.

Do you have a tumble dryer? If yes, do you rely on it?

If no, do you struggle getting everything dried over winter time?

Justifying the £350 gf is wanting to spend on a lovely black one that happens to match our new washing machine, fridge freezer and cooker....sigh.

We have one of these:



I'd say that we dry 90% of our stuff on that, and only 10% using the tumbley-dry. It's a good job that we have lots of draughts or else the house would reek with mould, given the amount of water that this process spews into the air.

Nikkster

silvercar wrote: »

I over use the tumble dryer, but never tumble dry t-shirts as I think they shrink over time. Always tumble dry on low unless it is bedding.

Question: How often do NPs wash towels?

I usually do three loads of washing every two weeks:
2 loads of clothes/ bedding
1 load of towels

I have 2 sets of towels so change them weekly

Much easier when there is just one person and no males (so no football kits) and no children.

Edit: there is a small tumble drier here, but I dry my stuff on an airer/ radiator airer as the heating dries it pretty quickly.

silvercar

Generali wrote: »

Weekly in summer, fortnightly in winter (max gap).

The reason? 2 showers a day this time of year but once a year in July/August.

Phew!

My mother is OCD about hand and body washing and washes towels every day. My sister, who is allegedly more rational, told her that it was excessive and safe to wash towels every other day. I refused to join the conversation They both walk around with hand cleansing gels in their pockets/ handbags/ cars.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Phew!

My mother is OCD about hand and body washing and washes towels every day. My sister, who is allegedly more rational, told her that it was excessive and safe to wash towels every other day. I refused to join the conversation They both walk around with hand cleansing gels in their pockets/ handbags/ cars.

If we leave them longer then they start getting stinky. Sydney is pretty humid so towels don't dry so fast which means bacteria and fungi will grow faster on them than some other places.

I have a friend and also an ex-coworker who had OCD. It's an illness and TBH it is a PITA for the rest of us but they can't help it.

Oh, I forgot to say that my last day at dowdy old job was yesterday. I've a week off before I start shiny, exciting NEW JOB!!! I'm looking forward to new job.

zagubov

We wash/dry much much less since DD moved out. Dry outside if weather good but use a tumble dryer the rest of the time. Also have to do an extra wash for dog towels.

Used to have a washer/dryer when we rented a house. Good if you've got 48 hours in the day to get the laundry done, as it could only dry half a washload at a time. Saves a small amount of space but at a huge cost of time.

Was horrified by the story in the paper about the woman who brought a barbecue indoors to dry clothes and poisoned her family with carbon monoxide.

Would dry stuff on as many radiator airers as I could on green principles. He says after driving 1000 miles in a car to see friends/relatives.

Anybody know /remeber why motorail services stopped and how much they cost compared with driving? Does Oz have them?